DOGE Affiliate Takes Over US Government’s ID Platform

An affiliate of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has taken the reins of the federal government’s central identity management platform. Greg Hogan will now serve as acting assistant commissioner of the Technology Transformation Services (TTS), a unit housed within the General Services Administration (GSA). In this role, he will oversee Login.gov, the government’s secure login and identity verification service.

Gregory Barbaccia, the federal chief information officer and acting director of TTS, informed staff via email that Hogan’s primary mission will be expanding Login.gov’s user base. The ultimate goal, Barbaccia wrote, is for the product to become “a world-class identity platform recognized beyond the federal government.” Until earlier this year, TTS was led by Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer. Under Shedd’s leadership, TTS lost 50 percent of its staff during the early months of 2025.

Hogan first entered government service in January 2025, coming from the startup Comma.ai, which specializes in self-driving car technology. He previously served as the CIO at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) as DOGE operatives embedded themselves within the agency, turning it into a key hub for the group’s broader government transformation efforts in early 2025. While at OPM, Hogan signed off on a privacy impact assessment that authorized a new email server. DOGE used this server to send some of its most controversial government-wide messages, including the infamous “Fork in the Road” email urging federal employees to accept a “deferred resignation” and leave the government. Another email demanded workers detail their weekly activities, with DOGE later using AI to analyze the responses. This server became the centerpiece of a lawsuit filed by federal employees, who argued that OPM violated the law by not publishing the privacy impact assessment before deploying the new system.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Hogan remained VP of Infrastructure at Comma.ai until October 2025, even during his tenure at OPM. In September, he left OPM to join the National Design Service (NDS), an initiative run by Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, who also had ties to DOGE.

The GSA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Launched in 2017, Login.gov was designed to provide Americans with a single, secure account for accessing services and information across multiple federal agencies. The platform was developed in part by the U. S. Digital Service, now renamed the U. S. DOGE Service.

In December 2025, Login.gov released a roadmap outlining plans to integrate mobile drivers’ licenses into the service and to allow passports as a form of identity verification. The presentation repeatedly highlights Login.gov’s role in combating fraud, a priority for the Trump administration.

“There’s a push to make Login a national ID in the sense that we would retain all info you’d need for any government interaction: in addition to standard ID (name, etc), we’d also have income info, citizenship status, info on dependents, etc,” said a TTS employee who spoke with WIRED on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.

“This would be great if implemented right,” the employee added. “With a DOGE guy in charge…this will look more like a central repository for surveillance.”

Another TTS employee, also speaking anonymously, offered a more optimistic view. They said Hogan “puts a lot of emphasis on listening to the career feds who work for him” and that he has “the right long term attitude.”

Although DOGE in its original form dissolved in June 2025 after billionaire Elon Musk left the government, many of its operatives remain in powerful positions across federal agencies, including the State Department, Department of Defense, and Social Security Administration. Others have moved to the private sector, including to government contractors.

Makena Kelly contributed reporting.